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Volume 9
Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change
Natural Hazards Congress 2018
July 26-27, 2018
July 26-27, 2018 Melbourne, Australia
2
nd
International Conference on
Natural Hazards and Disaster Management
Ahmad Gaber Shidied Ibrahim et al., J Earth Sci Clim Change 2018, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C2-042
Land use change detection and urban extension at Abu-Rawash Environs, West Cairo, Egypt
Ahmad Gaber Shidied Ibrahim
1
, Mohamed Saleh Hammad
2
, Ahmed Wagih Hussein
1
and Farouk Sayed
1
1
Fayoum University, Egypt
2
Cairo University, Egypt
A
bu-Rawash environs covers about 80 km
2
of the northern part of the Western Desert, at 10 km southwest of Greater Cairo,
Egypt. It represents the exclusive exposure of Cretaceous rocks and structures in the north Western Desert. It displays
excellent model of the stratigraphic and structural architecture of the northWestern Desert subsurface hydrocarbon provinces.
Urban development through the last five decades led to partial and complete obliteration of several locations at Abu-Rawash
area. Temporal Google images of different sources and historical aerial photographs were used to detect and evaluate the land
use changes due to successive urban development, declaring of geologically protectorate sites. The present study describes
image processing techniques of remotely sensing data in change detection by anthropologic activities of Abu-Rawash Environs
as development of new urban sites, roads and quarries.
Biography
Ahmed Gaber Shedid Ibrahim is a Professor of Hydrogeology, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Fayoum University, Egypt.
ags00@fayoum.edu.eg